Daniel Studies Abroad
David Fitzgibbon
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05/14/2014
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Daniel had a busy summer with trips to Japan and Costa Rica.
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- [00:00:04.655]I'd never been outside of the United States before,
- [00:00:06.443]but this last summer I was able to go to Costa Rica and Japan.
- [00:00:09.778]First in Japan for three weeks with the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
- [00:00:12.571]It was a tight knit group of only six other students and myself
- [00:00:15.111]so we go to know our professors and the program itself very well.
- [00:00:18.945]Our focus was Japan religions and the popular culture in Japan.
- [00:00:23.571]This is a tori gate, it's a symbol of the Shinto religion.
- [00:00:28.072]In Costa Rica it was different, that one was on a national level.
- [00:00:31.446]And we came together in Costa Rica with three other professors.
- [00:00:34.572]We were focused on tropical field research.
- [00:00:38.110]And we conducted actual group research projects with professors and eventually
- [00:00:41.737]did our own individual project.
- [00:00:43.986]It was the hardest academic thing I've ever done.
- [00:00:48.069]It wasn't a good experience, it was a great experience.
- [00:00:50.237]It was probably one of the best times I've ever had.
- [00:00:52.655]These experiences outside the United States have changed me in many ways
- [00:00:56.386]particularly with my perspective on people's thoughts.
- [00:00:59.750]Like why to people in these countries think what they think.
- [00:01:02.883]And some of the things I want to do as a career is hopefully change
- [00:01:06.665]the world for the better.
- [00:01:08.216]And I'm a firm believer that one cannot change the world
- [00:01:11.000]until one knows the world.
- [00:01:12.249]And I'm currently getting acquainted.
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